Re: [Fetchmail-users] Procmail filtering question

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Am 28.05.20 um 21:32 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
> On 28/05/2020 21.19, Peter Pentchev wrote:
>> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 07:59:37PM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>>> On 28/05/2020 16.57, Matthias Andree wrote:
>>>> Am 26.05.20 um 12:36 schrieb Richard Kimber via Fetchmail-users:
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>>>
>>>> This has been a normal format since 1993 or so (RFC 1522, now RFC
>>>> 2047).
>>>>
>>>> Everyone just stop using that unmaintained (for almost 20 years)
>>>> pile of
>>>> design garbage called procmail.
>>>
>>> And use what, then?
>>
>> maildrop? (possibly courier-maildrop)
>
> I considered that once, but in my distribution of choice it meant
> installing the entire courier thing, and that was problematic (I use
> dovecot). I did not find out how to replace procmail with maildrop.

Dovecot has Sieve and dovecot-lda or however it's called these days, and
on my distros, maildrop is also available without the full courier rig -
and maildrop has been my recommendation for a while.

There may be other options, and I wonder if Claws doesn't have built-in
filters, but I haven't used it in over a decade.